Michael Burgess actually said...

"I would just ask you in your conversations with House leadership to encourage us as much as is practical to get back to normal voting patterns."

"anything that restricted the energy production in that sector would likely have a deleterious effect on those jobs, would it not?"

"with all of the disparaging remarks being offered about the State of Texas, I thought it was important that I be back and at least be prepared to defend the Lone Star State."

"But, I mean, if you have ever been down to the Texas-Mexico border, particularly that sector in the lower Rio Grande Valley, it is very, very difficult to provide those--that interdiction."